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Social Capital Is as Important as Financial Capital in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

But effective cooperation, particularly in a setting as complex as health care, requires more than a resolve to play well together; it requires leadership to explicitly recognize the need to build social capital across the organization, and implement a strategy accomplish it. Ultimately, the key to success is authenticity.

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3 Things the Most Creative Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

The free-flowing exchange, in which employees, partners, and collaborators gain social capital through their creative input, has helped propel growth. He asked his management team to join him in a six-month prototype of the company’s open “Leadership Community.” Further Reading.